Richard Fortey is a British palaeontologist, natural history writer, and former senior researcher at the Natural History Museum in London. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he has spent decades studying trilobites and the deep history of life on Earth. Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind explores the extraordinary hidden world of fungi and their vital role in nature. His audiobooks and books are fascinating listening and reading for nature lovers and anyone curious about the remarkable organisms that quietly sustain life on our planet.
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